diff --git a/devel/py-argh/Makefile b/devel/py-argh/Makefile
index 1c85c2e7ab19..b3c63651fb45 100644
--- a/devel/py-argh/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-argh/Makefile
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 PORTNAME=	argh
-PORTVERSION=	0.27.2
+PORTVERSION=	0.28.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	nivit@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple (Python) argparse wrapper
 WWW=		https://github.com/neithere/argh
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL3
 
-USES=		python:3.6+
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flit-core>=${PORTVERSION}<4:devel/py-flit-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
+USES=		python:3.8+
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-argh/distinfo b/devel/py-argh/distinfo
index 68211559f87b..f7b67850bdc7 100644
--- a/devel/py-argh/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-argh/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1675979671
-SHA256 (argh-0.27.2.tar.gz) = 00c9027f6f461bcf24afe599a281bbda5cbd5dee4b6705befbea293a4ca7d221
-SIZE (argh-0.27.2.tar.gz) = 49200
+TIMESTAMP = 1676754092
+SHA256 (argh-0.28.1.tar.gz) = b2093086f0e809a3ecc24b64a2145309ee8f56d034936cd59e57c558a357329d
+SIZE (argh-0.28.1.tar.gz) = 62511